Health&Medicine
- Mar- 2021 -2 MarchScience
A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories
The upbeat song “Sweet Caroline” often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the…
Read More » - Feb- 2021 -28 FebruaryScience
What you need to know about J&J’s newly authorized one-shot COVID-19 vaccine
And then there were three: A single-shot vaccine is the latest weapon to join the battle against COVID-19 in the…
Read More » - 27 FebruaryScience
Global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination is more than a moral problem
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses…
Read More » - 26 FebruaryScience
Can a COVID-19 vaccine’s second dose be delayed? It’s complicated
Within a couple weeks after a first vaccine dose, people are well protected against severe COVID-19, new data suggest. With…
Read More » - 26 FebruaryScience
COVID-19 vaccines may be ready for teens this summer
Encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines keeps coming. No unusual safety issues arose during the first month of vaccination, when 13.8…
Read More » - 19 FebruaryScience
The U.K. approved the world’s first COVID-19 human challenge trial
In a few weeks, dozens of young and healthy volunteers in the United Kingdom will be intentionally exposed to the…
Read More » - 19 FebruaryScience
The COVID-19 death toll sent U.S. life expectancy plunging in 2020
Life expectancy in the United States plunged in the first half of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. A…
Read More » - 13 FebruaryScience
Pfizer’s vaccine appears to reduce coronavirus transmission
Researchers are getting the first real-world hints that a vaccine can curb the coronavirus’s spread, not just prevent people from…
Read More » - 12 FebruaryScience
Making masks fit better can reduce coronavirus exposure by 96 percent
By now, most people have gotten the message that wearing a face mask is one way to help stop the…
Read More » - 6 FebruaryScience
How coronavirus variants may drive reinfection and shape vaccination efforts
Vaccine rollout in the United States has been undeniably slow. And while we wait, worrisome new coronavirus variants are emerging,…
Read More » - 6 FebruaryScience
The animals that ticks bite in the U.S. South can impact Lyme disease spread
The paucity of Lyme disease cases in the southern United States may be partly due to what black-legged ticks in…
Read More » - 5 FebruaryScience
Nearly half a million U.S. children missed out on lead tests in early 2020
Close to a half million U.S. children didn’t get tested for lead in the first half of 2020. Nearly 10,000…
Read More » - Jan- 2021 -16 JanuaryScience
The more contagious coronavirus variant may soon be the U.S.’s dominant strain
A highly contagious coronavirus variant will become the dominant version of the virus in the United States in March, emphasizing…
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